Author : Melody Marion
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 162190816X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Book Synopsis Carson-Newman University by : Melody Marion
Download or read book Carson-Newman University written by Melody Marion and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Melody Marion and Amanda Ford trace the formation of this Jefferson City, Tennessee, institution from its founding as Mossy Creek Missionary Baptist Seminary in 1850 to the one-hundred-and-twenty acre university campus that is Carson-Newman today. Along the way, Marion and Ford discuss the school's Baptist foundations, its coeducational merger in the late nineteenth century, a string of presidents both exceptional and misguided, and its expansion from college to university in the twenty-first century"--